Acupuncturist, Mycologist, Clinician & Research Scientist
Christopher Hobbs, PhD, LAc
Delve into five popular mushrooms (with a synopsis of other valuable species) — and learn their incredible immune-boosting and normalizing properties, how to shop or forage for them, how to dry and cook them… and the proper dosing to address health issues, strengthen your immune system, boost brain function, expand your consciousness, and more.
For thousands of years, cultures around the world have relied on mushrooms for their incredible health-promoting and medicinal properties.
Mushrooms were widely used in ancient Egypt. East Asian traditions and Indigenous cultures embrace mushrooms’ healing power. And the Chinese have called reishi mushroom the Elixir of Life.
Now, Westerners are recognizing mushrooms’ nutritional and medicinal properties for the body, mind, and spirit.
And it’s no wonder! Mushrooms can strengthen your immune system, help prevent cancer and heart disease, improve digestion, support healthy bones, boost cognitive function, and much more — according to decades of worldwide scientific research.
Meanwhile, the scientific community continues to uncover the many ways psilocybin (aka hallucinogenic mushrooms) can help ease depression, anxiety, addiction, and PTSD.
Mushrooms are a very sustainable food source that’s simple to grow and forage for. They can also help you transition to a more plant-based diet with their abundance of protein, fiber, and vitamins.
With all these benefits at your fingertips, where should you begin if you want to make the most of mushrooms’ healing powers — and integrate them into your life in a lasting way?
Join us for a 7-module video course with Dr. Christopher Hobbs, internationally renowned author and herbalist, and learn how to boost your wellbeing as you bring the scientifically proven benefits of mushrooms into your daily life.
As more wellness seekers learn about the many benefits of mushrooms, misinformation is on the rise. After many years of speaking, teaching, writing, and treating patients, Christopher is well-versed in the most essential information you need to bring mushrooms into your routines for safe and effective natural healing.
A fourth-generation herbalist and licensed acupuncturist, Christopher has a doctorate from UC Berkeley — and is beloved by his students for his ability to share the benefits of mushrooms in actionable, clear, and inspiring ways they can implement right away.
During your seven modules together, Christopher will walk you through five of the most popular healing mushrooms — and teach you to be an informed shopper, a skilled forager, and a confident cook. He’ll explain the dosing guidelines you’ll need to make the most of mushrooms’ healing benefits, and much more.
In this information-packed online video course, you’ll:
- Learn to incorporate mushrooms into your diet, health journey, and spiritual life
- Learn to discern the quality of your retail mushroom supplements
- Discover how mushrooms are among the most powerful and safest remedies for boosting your immune response because of their cell wall polymers
- Learn how certain mushrooms can stimulate the compounds responsible for cancer and tumor suppression
- Explore important antioxidants found in mushrooms that seems to have a profound impact on aging
- Learn the best methods for cooking with mushrooms
- Try techniques for making mushroom powders and teas at home
- Properly dose mushrooms to make the most of their healing properties
- Discover ways mushrooms can help you modulate and regulate your immune system to prevent bacterial or viral infections
- Discover the importance of mushrooms for keeping our forests and ecosystems healthy and thriving
- Learn about the many benefits of gilled mushrooms, chaga mushrooms, cordyceps, turkey tail, reishi, lion’s mane, and more
- Explore how psilocybin works in the brain to help alleviate childhood trauma, PTSD, addiction, and mental illness
- Key ways to recognize types of mushrooms, ranging from morels to wood ears
- The best times of year and types of weather to forage mushrooms
What You’ll Discover in These 7 Modules
In this 7-part transformational intensive, Christopher will guide you to delve into five popular healing mushrooms (with a synopsis of other valuable species) — including how to shop or forage for them, how to dry and cook them… and the proper dosing to address health issues, strengthen your immune system, boost brain function, expand your consciousness, and more.
This course will feature step-by-step teachings and experiential practices with Christopher. Each session will build harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to transform your health and wellbeing with the power of mushrooms.
Module 1: Transform Your Life With Fungi
For thousands of years, people have used mushrooms for both food and medicine. The Chinese have called reishi the Elixir of Life. As a food mushrooms are cholesterol-free, as well as low in calories, fat, carbs, and sodium.
In this first module, Christopher will share how mushrooms provide an amazing amount of nutrients — potassium, vitamin D, selenium, and loads of fiber, rivaling meat for high-quality protein.
Mushrooms are used for medicinal purposes to promote a healthy immune response, support good health, fight illness, enhance memory, and potentially increase longevity.
During this opening session, you’ll learn how mushrooms, when used correctly, hold the capacity to change your life in an immediate and powerful way.
In this module, you’ll discover how:
- Mushrooms are among the most powerful and safest remedies for boosting your immune response because of their cell wall polymers
- Mushrooms modulate immune pathways to fight pathogens — while preventing your immune system from overreacting (which leads to chronic disease)
- Mushrooms are the best way to transition to a more plant-based diet — they’re very tasty, nutritious, and far more sustainable
- Fungi help forests recover and speed the growth of new trees
- Edible fungi can transform agricultural and home-garden yard waste into valuable protein and nutrient-dense food
Module 2: Ways to Use Mushrooms Medicinally
In this module, you’ll learn the practical applications for adding mushrooms to your diet.
Christopher will explain how easily you can incorporate mushrooms into your daily life — for healing different ailments and symptoms, and also for prevention.
You’ll see how different fungi have individual adaptogenic properties of the most prominent superfood varieties and how incorporating them into your daily routine can take your health, longevity, and performance to the next level.
In this module, you’ll discover:
- Why mushrooms are the best natural medicine to help you maintain a strong immune response
- Ways mushrooms can help you modulate and regulate your immune system to prevent bacterial or viral infections
- Certain mushrooms that can stimulate the compounds responsible for cancer and tumor suppression
- How eating 2 portions of the right mushrooms weekly can substantially cut the risk of mild cognitive impairment
- Two important antioxidants in mushrooms that seem to have a profound impact on aging
Module 3: The Best Ways to Source & Use Mushrooms
In this module, you’ll discover where you can get mushrooms — through foraging in the woods, growing your own, or buying them in the marketplace.
If you’re looking to find them in the wild, you’ll see how to discern whether they’re safe and under what conditions and places you can find the best medicinal and edible mushrooms.
You’ll also learn techniques to cook with mushrooms, while maximizing their healing properties. And you’ll learn how to source organic mushrooms and make your own products like a double-extraction tea to jumpstart your healing process.
In this module, you’ll discover:
- The best methods for cooking with mushrooms
- Techniques to make powders and teas at home
- How to test your adaptogen mushroom products to determine whether you’re getting pure mushrooms or filler
- The powerful healing compounds in various mushroom species and how to use them most effectively
- Which mushrooms treat which common conditions
- How to properly dose a variety of mushrooms to make the most of their healing properties
Module 4: All About Fungi
Mushrooms grow abundantly in the wild, yet are neither a vegetable nor a plant.
In this module, you’ll explore how mushrooms live, get their energy, and grow. You’ll cultivate a better understanding of how to identify them and how to avoid the toxic ones.
You’ll learn how important mushrooms are to our ecosystem and how they offer answers to some of the most pressing issues of our times — medically and environmentally.
Mushrooms can help restore habitats devastated by pollution and create sustainable fuel — as well as light, strong, and sustainable building materials.
Mycelium — the vegetative part of the mushroom — exude enzymes and antimicrobial, antiviral compounds that create a cellular foundation for rich soil, sustaining what’s necessary for life.
In this module, you’ll discover:
- The top 5 medicinal mushrooms you can find in the woods
- The top 5 tastiest, healthiest mushrooms to cook with
- How important mushrooms are for keeping our ecosystems healthy and thriving
- How beneficial it is for dead mushrooms to infuse energy into other organisms
- The ways gilled mushrooms make it easier to spread spores and grow your own mushrooms at home
Module 5: Top 5 Medicinal, Edible Mushrooms Readily Available Today
All edible mushrooms have nutritional benefits — they all contain vitamins, selenium, protein, and fiber.
There are, however, many different varieties of mushrooms that provide additional wellness benefits, too.
In this module, you’ll be learning about five of the easiest, healthiest mushrooms to procure in the woods or the marketplace — shiitake, reishi, lion’s mane, chaga, and cordyceps. You’ll learn where they grow and the variety of ways that herbalists use them today.
Any of these mushrooms can be cooked, or taken as a supplement in either liquid, pill, or powder form.
In this module, you’ll discover:
- How chaga mushrooms are full of antioxidants and beta glucans and offer immune and heart support
- How chagas are anti-inflammatory, good for lowering blood pressure, and helpful for increasing energy levels
- The many ways cordyceps mushrooms, found high in the Himalayas, provide great immune, kidney, and energy support by helping maintain blood sugar levels and providing oxygen on a cellular level, which improves heart health
- How turkey tail mushrooms have antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties, are full of antioxidants — and contain prebiotics that enhance gut health and help nourish helpful bacteria
- How reishi mushrooms help provide relief for inflammation, cardiovascular issues, liver detoxification, and stress reduction
- How lion’s mane mushrooms help bring relief for anxiety and mild depression symptoms — and can help improve your memory
Module 6: Raising Consciousness With Mushrooms
Psilocybin mushrooms, also known as magic mushrooms, have been used for healing by Indigenous cultures for thousands of years.
Psilocybin was outlawed in the 1960s despite the inroads being made by the medical community on its healing properties.
Today, scientific studies show that psilocybin-assisted therapy can produce better and more consistent results than any other form of treatment for depression and addiction. Beyond psychiatric issues, psilocybin has also been shown to transform the human psyche on an existential, philosophical, and spiritual level.
In this module, you’ll discover:
- How psilocybin works in the brain to help alleviate childhood trauma, PTSD, addiction, and mental illness
- What clinical trials are finding as they delve deeper into research on depression and addiction
- What microdosing is and why it generates higher levels of creativity, increased focus, and reduced anxiety
- The ways psilocybin increases neurogenesis to strengthen brain circuitry and grow new circuitry
- How people are finding guides, like psychologists, to lead them on visualized journeys with mushrooms and help them achieve a higher consciousness
Module 7: A Fun Foray Into Foraging Mushrooms
In this final module, you’ll learn how to get into the woods and start scouting mushrooms.
Foraging has become popular in the past few years, but with over 10,000 species of fungi out there — of which only 15 to 30 produce edible mushrooms — you’ll need to be knowledgeable about what you’re searching for.
Hunting mushrooms, noting their uniqueness, and learning their secrets will help deepen your connection to nature and the world around you.
In this module, you’ll discover:
- Key ways to recognize types of mushrooms, ranging from morels to wood ears
- The best times of year and types of weather to forage mushrooms
- How to regenerate mushrooms so they continue to grow year after year
- Ways to join a passionate, fun mycological society to build community and continue your enjoyment of mushroom hunting
The Healing Power of Mushrooms Bonus Collection
In addition to Christopher’s transformative 7-module virtual course, you’ll receive these special bonuses to complement the course and take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
Mushroom Identification
Library of Images From Christopher Hobbs
Enjoy hundreds of beautiful and informative mushroom pictures taken in stores, forests, and mushroom fairs, all organized by genus and species. A familiarity with different aspects of important species like Western reishi species will help you identify them in the wild.
Mushroom Medicine: Challenges & Potential
PDF Article by Christopher Hobbs
In this fascinating article, Christopher gives you a closer look at the complex world of medicinal mushrooms. Published in the Journal of the American Herbalists Guild (the only national professional herbalists’ organization in the U.S.), this article offers a concise overview of the healing properties of fungi. You’ll explore more details about how to use mushrooms for maintaining and restoring your health.
Medicine Fungi: Chemistry, Activity & Product Assurance
PDF Article by Christopher Hobbs
The total estimated number of fungal species is about 5.1 million — so it’s no surprise that among them are species that produce important compounds (for example, penicillin). Many species form the basis of several classes of medicinal products, such as antibiotics and immune-enhancers, while others are a danger to human health. Published in the prestigious, peer-reviewed journal HerbalGram, this article explains how you can evaluate and choose the highest quality products. You’ll explore how mushrooms work to activate your immune defenses and delve into their many other health benefits.
What People Are Saying About Christopher Hobbs...
“Every lesson is an eye-opening experience, an adventure of sorts.”
I went into this course as a nurse and an herbalist. I knew I would learn a lot, but not to the extent and caliber this course has proven to be. Every lesson is an eye-opening experience, an adventure of sorts. It is scientifically, medically correct and incorporates Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurvedic, Native American, and other alternative therapies as well. I would recommend this course to anyone who wishes to take their knowledge up to the next level. Anyone who is interested in the natural approach to health or who wishes to supplement their own health would benefit from this course.
— Linda Roberts, Snellville, Georgia
“Like a good herbal formula, Christopher Hobbs’ home-study course is a fine blend of Western and Chinese herbal practices.”
Like a good herbal formula, Christopher Hobbs’ home-study course is a fine blend of Western and Chinese herbal practices. The course also brings traditional herbalism closer to the mainstream of current medicine and science by examining the chemical constituents of herbs and their therapeutic activities.
— John Maknopoulos, Chicago, Illinois
“I’m becoming a lot more confident in my knowledge on herbs and herbal medicine...”
One way that the course is helping me at the herb store where I work is that now I understand more of how things work in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Also I understand more about what words like “wildcrafting” actually mean. I am also learning how varying herb products can be, and how who they’re made by makes a real difference. I’m becoming a lot more confident in my knowledge on herbs and herbal medicine and am really looking forward to the rest of the course.
— Lora Darling, Guerneville, California
“I’m having a great time studying it and am thankful such quality courses are available for the home student.”
I can’t speak highly enough of Christopher’s course. I’m having a great time studying it and am thankful such quality courses are available for the home student. Thanks again.
— John Kaleel
“This course has proved to be extremely useful as I refer to it almost daily.”
Thank you for offering this fabulous course. I can’t believe how much I learned from it and how much information it contains. The layout of the course along with the lectures made it really easy for me to learn the herbs and remember their uses. This course has proved to be extremely useful as I refer to it almost daily. Since I have finished the course I still go over the lessons regularly and am still learning new things!
— Kristina Kitchen
Here’s What You’ll Receive
Seven 90-Minute Class Sessions With Christopher Hobbs
Experience a unique opportunity to be mentored by and learn from renowned herbalist, acupuncturist, mycologist, clinician, and research scientist Christopher Hobbs from the comfort of your own home. Each class session includes a streaming video option and guides you to discover specific skills and abilities to boost your immune system, boost brain function, and expand your consciousness through delving into five popular mushrooms.
Seven Transcripts of Class Sessions
In addition to the high-quality videos and MP3 audios, you’ll also receive the entire class transcription after each session is completed. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given.
Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
Between class sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each lesson.
The Healing Power of Mushrooms Bonus Collection
- Mushroom Identification
Library of Images From Christopher Hobbs - Mushroom Medicine: Challenges & Potential
PDF Article by Christopher Hobbs - Medicine Fungi: Chemistry, Activity & Product Assurance
PDF Article by Christopher Hobbs
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join the Transform Your Health & Raise Your Consciousness With the Healing Power of Mushrooms Online Training
We feel honored that Christopher Hobbs has chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive online training. This is a unique opportunity to learn from a renowned herbalist, acupuncturist, mycologist, clinician, and research scientist whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.
If you’re serious about boosting your immune system, enhancing brain function, and expanding your consciousness through exploring the scientifically proven benefits of mushrooms, then you owe it to yourself to take this one-of-a-kind training.
If you’re ready to take the next step in evolving yourself, click the register button below to reserve your space now.
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More Praise for Christopher Hobbs...
“I would highly recommend this course to anyone who wants an in-depth knowledge of herbal medicine and energetic principles.”
Thank you for a terrific course. I especially appreciated the organization of the material by major body system and the holistic approach to diagnosis and treatment. The blend of lectures, slide presentations, and text provided a thorough, well-rounded, integrated course on herbal medicine. The lessons were very detailed and thorough, and I learned a tremendous amount from them. I would highly recommend this course to anyone who wants an in-depth knowledge of herbal medicine and energetic principles.
— Julie Herzog, Elderberry Herb Farm, Sharon Springs, New York
“Thank you for creating this program!”
In the past I never thought I’d do well with this type of program, as I prefer a classroom setting. However, once I saw the PowerPoint presentation and text format, I realized how in-depth and good this program would be for me. I have enjoyed each chapter and even though some is overview, I still learn more than I knew before. I have encouraged others to take this program because of the incredible instructional background and development and how easy this is to fit into my current busy lifestyle. I am excited to progress onward through this study and know this work will lead me to more of what I like in the herb profession. Thank you for creating this program!
— Kelly Clonts, manager, Peachtree Natural Foods, Atlanta, Georgia
“I have explored many herbal distance learning programs and this course is by far superior.”
I absolutely love this course! I have explored many herbal distance learning programs and this course is by far superior. The material is presented so that it’s easily understandable with great references, making the information easy to retain. The course goes beyond theory, and presents practical information that you can begin using immediately. I am finally making my own herbal remedies that are benefitting myself, my family, and friends. I would highly recommend Mr. Hobbs’ program to anyone interested in studying the wonder of herbs!
— L.M. Vellucci, martial arts instructor, Redmond, Oregon
“I highly recommend this course for anyone wanting to gain a deeper understanding of herbal medicine.”
The course has been an amazing adventure for me. There is so much information packed in a very organized way that builds from one lesson to the next. There’s an underlying theme throughout that helps one grasp concepts along the way. I especially loved the way that problems in each body system are addressed with well-defined herbal formulas that one can make. The information about the herbs themselves is invaluable, and I know I will be referring back to this course always. The course quizzes are a way to consolidate the information gained from each lesson, and at the end of each lesson one can continue with the additional projects listed, so the learning goes on! I highly recommend this course for anyone wanting to gain a deeper understanding of herbal medicine.
— Monique Portanger, occupational therapist registered/licensed
“Thanks to your class, I was able to get control back over my own health and the health of my family.”
I really enjoyed the journey. Your course is very well structured and practical. Thanks to your class, I was able to get control back over my own health and the health of my family. Everyone loves the new health-and-nature vibe in the house.
— Carine Namiech, Surfside, Florida
About Christopher Hobbs, PhD, LAc
Dr. Christopher Hobbs is a fourth-generation internationally renowned herbalist, licensed acupuncturist, herbal clinician, research scientist, consultant to the dietary supplement industry, expert witness, botanist, and mycologist with over 40 years of experience.
The author or co-author of over 20 books, Christopher lectures on herbal medicine worldwide. He has taught at numerous universities and medical schools, including Bastyr University and the National School of Naturopathic Medicine. He taught classes for over seven years at the University of California, Berkeley, as a PhD graduate student in evolutionary biology, phylogenetics, plant chemistry, and ethnobotany, and then as a faculty lecturer after receiving his PhD.
Christopher is currently teaching a fully accredited lab class in all aspects of herbal medicine at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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